Guild Wars 2

First off, I’m not talking about the Living World achievements.

Why on earth are the WvW achievements so difficult to get?
I’d be first to admit I spend a heck of a lot of time on Gw2, more than I should. Though, for anyone to get those achievements in their lifetime really need to seek medical help, or plan their funeral well ahead.

To name a few;
“Defend Stonemist Castle 500,000 times”
“Capture Stonemist Castle 25,000 times”
“Defend 500,000 keeps”
“Kill 1,000,000 enemy supply caravan”
“Successfully escort 500,000 supply caravan”

Surely these achievements can’t be serious? I’m all for achievements to be hard to obtain (hence the reason they are called achievements), but those numbers are plain stupid.
If I were to obtain any of them I would sure as hell have to have it written on my headstone.

Even capturing Stonemist Castle 5 times a day for 7 days a week, it’s going to take 715 days solid of doing that EVERY day. Which isn’t likely.
2 Straight years for a Title?
The title is not the only reward.. oh no. The second reward you get is a whopping 56 Achievement Points!

On a serious note. Are these Achievements really serious? If so.. why?

They have already said that they are going to revamp the numbers sometime in the future, but no ETA yet.

I think a dev once stated in a thread a looong time ago that the numbers were never intended to be that high, and only were “placeholder” numbers while they developed the game. However, for some reason they never changed them before release.

WvW achievements should really be like Agent of Entropy which is basically a treadmill with no end. Every X amount of Y should give achievement points. Course that might send several players into the achievement point stratosphere immediately.

I was hoping they’d be placeholders, I was also hoping they would be changed soon. Though, it doesn’t look likely.